helicopters. hell yes. plus the multitude of other aircraft that buzz me daily. not near an airport but do seems to be on the flight path (north south) for every airliner flying over the UK, and every military plane (east west) out for a jaunt, and every light aircraft (anywhich way they want), private jets, light aircraft, olde worlde antique planes, anything that flies.

my sister lives nearish to heathrow. i have just spent a few days there, and jumbo jets fly low enough to see the pilots and yet they are far less annoying than the constant assault on my ears and equalibrium the skies at home provide.

Lunchista wrote:
Helicopters (except the ones that rescue people) should be banned. Whenever one flies over, a trail of dogs bark and babies scream in its wake, so it's obviously made a lot of people miserable, and for what?? Just to tell some idiot radio station that there's traffic on the A1 (yes we know that) or satisfy that macho urge of some maladjusted Polis (as opposed to the well-adjusted ones I generally meet).

Helicopters fill me with the urge to go straight to my local arms dealer and tool up with an RPG. You can see why the Palestinians get so brassed off: they probably never get any kip.

Tell me about it. When I got back from a Pet Shop Boys concert last week I was in a buoyant mood and therefore not relaxed enough to want to go to bed to sleep so went on-line for two or three hours only to be woken up the next morning before seven by a police helicopter flying overhead so didn't get my lie in and as a result kept taking naps all day. I should have forced myself to go to bed and hopefully would have been able to wind down enough to sleep.

Fortunately I live in an area of the city that doesn't get the police helicopters flying overhead much but when they do they disturb the peace. In the inner city it's most nights for the residents and they often fly low. The whole point of police helicopters is that they are at an altitude to get a wide view of the area to pin point where there needs to be a patrol car but often they are flying low and taking the place of patrol cars. There is no need for this. They should be at an altitude of at least 500 metres at all times once in the air.

Event notices where the date of the month and day of the week do not correspond. Is it the day or the date that is correct? There is no excuse to get it wrong with digital television sets, mobile phones, computers and cheaper paperback and hardback diaries whereas once before all diaries were leather or PVC bound.

Media training for spokespersons for companies and public sector organisations. It's like they are trained to speak in a wooden way with no facial expressions and in case of difficult questions posed by the TV anchor is to say 'let me repeat what I've just said earlier.....'

The Oyster Card system for London's transport network-

I tap my card on the reader at one station going in,the card registers,I tap out at another station and the reader says 'seek assistance' but of course there's no one around and ninety nine times out of a hundred 'seek assistance' 'means seek assistance so that you can stand in a queue for ten minutes just to be told there's nothing wrong.' I repeat my journey in the opposite direction with the same results.

This registers on my card as 'incomplete journey' and docks my balance 6 quid!As some sort of fine.I ring the help line up costing me money to be told that it's there fault not mine and the money will be refunded......and the catch is....wait for it wait for it that it gets refunded when I tap my card in on my next journey but only if it's in the next seven days and I have to designate a station where I start my journey in advance.

So basically,to get back the six quid I have to spend six quid on a journey I might not want to make in the next seven days from a station I might not want to make it from!
Of course if London Transport would just FIX THE BLOODY SYSTEM SO IT WORKS PROPERLY I WOULDN'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS FARCE!!!

Now now Mr. Lorac. * mops Mr.L`s brow with a cool rag soaked in whale oil. *
It will all be better soon............ish!

Pet Peeve? Finding the Idle Forum all broken and in pieces.

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Bez wrote:
Pet Peeve? Finding the Idle Forum all broken and in pieces.

<Bez throws off his clothes, and launches into a quick Pagan dance to the Joomla Gods for continuing protection, whilst shouting "come on, you lot. It's the only way">
Well I have been recieving therapy since being told I was forbidden to log in.....


I did get just a tiny bit worried that I had been banned due to the incident of the engaged w.c. and Mr.Livereds hat.

The Birmingham Complaints Choir (they're a bit crap, but hey...)



... but the Helsinki Complaints Choir are is good:

People who overdress to go shopping